Skeleton of a Turkey

1620-1621

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.5 × 8.9 cm (5 11/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 17.4 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.5.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini, no. 430

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 430.

Inscriptions

in plate, at top: Indie Galle iaces, animis elate superbis, / Luce te nunc clamor, crista quid via vivant; in plate, at lower left: Gallo de India; bottom right corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 21

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